Triangle Transit Authority
E436391
Triangle Transit Authority was the former name of GoTriangle, the regional public transit agency serving North Carolina’s Research Triangle area.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Triangle Transit Authority canonical | 1 |
| Triangle regional transit network | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4375561 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Triangle Transit Authority Context triple: [GoTriangle, formerName, Triangle Transit Authority]
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A.
Metropolitan Transit Authority
The Metropolitan Transit Authority was a former public agency that operated and managed mass transit services in the Boston metropolitan area before being succeeded by the MBTA.
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B.
Grant Transit Authority
Grant Transit Authority is a public transportation agency that operates bus and transit services in and around Moses Lake and other communities in Grant County, Washington.
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C.
Manchester Transit Authority
Manchester Transit Authority is the primary public bus and paratransit service provider for the city of Manchester, New Hampshire and surrounding areas.
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D.
Bi-State Development Agency (Metro) transit system
The Bi-State Development Agency (Metro) transit system is the public transportation network for the St. Louis region, operating MetroLink light rail, MetroBus services, and paratransit across Missouri and Illinois communities.
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E.
Metro Rail Transit Corporation
Metro Rail Transit Corporation is a private consortium in the Philippines that financed, built, and initially operated Manila’s MRT Line 3 under a public–private partnership.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Triangle Transit Authority Target entity description: Triangle Transit Authority was the former name of GoTriangle, the regional public transit agency serving North Carolina’s Research Triangle area.
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A.
Metropolitan Transit Authority
The Metropolitan Transit Authority was a former public agency that operated and managed mass transit services in the Boston metropolitan area before being succeeded by the MBTA.
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B.
Grant Transit Authority
Grant Transit Authority is a public transportation agency that operates bus and transit services in and around Moses Lake and other communities in Grant County, Washington.
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C.
Manchester Transit Authority
Manchester Transit Authority is the primary public bus and paratransit service provider for the city of Manchester, New Hampshire and surrounding areas.
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D.
Bi-State Development Agency (Metro) transit system
The Bi-State Development Agency (Metro) transit system is the public transportation network for the St. Louis region, operating MetroLink light rail, MetroBus services, and paratransit across Missouri and Illinois communities.
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E.
Metro Rail Transit Corporation
Metro Rail Transit Corporation is a private consortium in the Philippines that financed, built, and initially operated Manila’s MRT Line 3 under a public–private partnership.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (31)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
public transit agency
ⓘ
regional transit agency ⓘ |
| basedIn | Research Triangle Park, North Carolina NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| fareSystem | GoPass NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| formerNameOf | GoTriangle NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasSuccessor | GoTriangle NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasTransitMode | bus ⓘ |
| hasWebsite | https://gotriangle.org ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation | Research Triangle Park, North Carolina NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| industry | public transportation ⓘ |
| locatedInTheAdministrativeTerritorialEntity | North Carolina NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| operatedBy | GoTriangle (after rebranding) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| operates |
park-and-ride lots
ⓘ
regional bus service ⓘ |
| operatesInMetropolitanArea |
Raleigh–Durham metropolitan area
NERFINISHED
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Research Triangle metropolitan region NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ownedBy | local governments in the Research Triangle region ⓘ |
| partOf | public transportation in the Research Triangle ⓘ |
| publicTransportAgencyFor | Research Triangle Park NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| regionServed |
Durham County, North Carolina
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Orange County, North Carolina NERFINISHED ⓘ Wake County, North Carolina NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| replacedBy | GoTriangle NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| serves |
Chapel Hill, North Carolina
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Durham, North Carolina NERFINISHED ⓘ Raleigh, North Carolina NERFINISHED ⓘ Research Triangle NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| serviceType |
express bus service
ⓘ
fixed-route bus service ⓘ regional transit service ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.
Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: Triangle Transit Authority Description of subject: Triangle Transit Authority was the former name of GoTriangle, the regional public transit agency serving North Carolina’s Research Triangle area.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
GoTriangle
this entity surface form:
Triangle regional transit network